An Inlaid Celadon Stoneware Bowl

KORYO DYNASTY (12TH-13TH CENTURY)

Details

An Inlaid Celadon Stoneware Bowl
Koryo Dynasty (12th-13th Century)
Inlaid on the interior in white clay with a narrow band of stylized foliage below the rim and with five pomegranate sprays on the curved walls which center a triple-chrysanthemum spray enclosed within a collar of linked sacred-fungus heads, the bowl also inlaid in white clay on the exterior with a wide band of scrolling foliage surrounding five chrysanthemum medallions with leaves of ferrous clay, with a narrow band of foliage below the rim which matches the band on the interior, and with a band of stiff leaves inlaid in white and ferrous clay above the foot; the bowl also decorated by a blue-green celadon glaze with streaming long craquelure on the interior and pooling emerald above the foot, foot rim and base glazed, four spur marks on base
7 1/4in. (18.3cm.) diameter; 2 1/8in. (5.3cm.) high

Provenance

Purchased from Mathias Komor, 1959.11

Exhibited

Asia House Gallery, New York, "The Art of the Korean Potter," 1968

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
The Art of the Korean Potter, exh. cat. (New York: Asia Society, 1968), no. 61.

For another bowl see W. B. Honey, Corean Pottery (London: Faber and Faber, 1952), no. 58.

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